[sabrina]

Lots of cats in my area gone missing over the last 2wks

[Victorian Farmer]

Not good i hope some think is done .

[WaltDisneyWorld]

Signed

[Berkshire Boy]

I love my dogs but come on the police have far more important things to do and if my dogs went missing I would not expect them to waste their time looking for them

[doganjo]

done it.  I couldn't believe what the police did either!! 


One idea thats floating around my head is that there are many reports of near misses - ie "man in white van tries to grab dog and is thwarted by dog owner in Townsville" etc..  Those incidents will be definitely ignored by the police.  I wonder if a site like doglost would be willing to set up a page to log these incidents? Especially if reg nos are noted.  Some sort of pattern may then emerge?  What do you think?

Certainly worth asking them - they are usually quite amenable to suggestions to improve their website.

[Orinoco]

Done

We believe we thwarted the theft of  Airedale, a van was parked on the hard shoulder of the A23 our regular walk route. Our Airedale  acted totally out of character and pushed through a fence and  disappeared,  we spotted her on the hard shoulder running away from this parked van. She would have had to push through a slope of bramble bushes to get there (as we did painfully quickly to get to her). We did report this as even though we made an assumption as to the situation, we thought if there were enough reports, warnings may be given/ put up.

Our dogs and now cats are very much part of our family.

K

[doganjo]

I love my dogs but come on the police have far more important things to do and if my dogs went missing I would not expect them to waste their time looking for them

I do hope you never lose them then. 
Mine have gone missing due to OTHER people leaving gates open.  I wouldn't expect the police to search for my dogs either, but our local police sent out a squad car on Hogmanay last year to keep an eye out for them - they would have been checking other things out at the same time no doubt..  Fortunately the dogs came back - with bunnies in  their mouths, but with a road and railway next to me I was very upset and I was grateful for their offer of help.

[Rhodie]

Signed, if dogs are brought into the police, are they checked for microchips?  Our older dogs are double chipped (USA/EU)  both pedigrees and rescue dogs, the new pup is just EU chipped,their real value is as family members, but the pedigrees are between £800-£1000 which is a fair financial value worth being investigated.

[doganjo]

Signed, if dogs are brought into the police, are they checked for microchips?  Our older dogs are double chipped (USA/EU)  both pedigrees and rescue dogs, the new pup is just EU chipped,their real value is as family members, but the pedigrees are between £800-£1000 which is a fair financial value worth being investigated.

Not always.  Not their responsibility we were told - all found dogs now go to dog warden then kennels. In England anyway.

We checked out a report on the 1st about a GSP that had been handed in to the Police at Rotherham.  No details taken and the guy came back half an hour later, said the dog was his neighbours and got it back.

Dawn had a helluva job finding him but as it happens it wasn't Angel.  She's still missing